English Composition by PracticeHenry Holt, 1892 - 203 pages |
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adverb antecedent asked beautiful begin button-box called capital CHAMBERED NAUTILUS closely color comma is placed composition compound sentence dash dear dependent clause Edited EDWARD ROWLAND SILL ellipsis England English essay examples EXERCISE expression fiddle flowers George Eliot give heard HENRY informal note interrogation-point introduction island king lady Lakes of Killarney language letter light look marked means metaphors Metonymy mill morning never night Notice nouns ONOMATOPOEIA paint paragraph paraphrase person picture poem Prose punctuation pupil quotation Read relative clause relative pronoun Reproductions Rewrite the following Robin sail semicolon sentence by commas separated ship SHORT PAPERS sounds speaker storm SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD Synecdoche tell tence things thou thought tion told uncon unity verb WILLIS HOWARD wind winter WORDS OR PHRASES written Yale College York
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Page 100 - ... CHAMBERED NAUTILUS. THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare ; Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl, — Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell...
Page 101 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Page 147 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Page 100 - Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn ! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from Wreathed Horn ! While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings : — Build thee more stately mansions...
Page 61 - THREE fishers went sailing away to the West, Away to the West as the sun went down ; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town...
Page 61 - And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown. But men must work, and women must weep, Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbor bar be moaning. Three corpses lay out on the shining sands In the morning gleam as the tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come home to the town; For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep; And good-by to the bar and its moaning.
Page 100 - Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil ; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, , Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.
Page 95 - Where, midst their labour, pause the reaper train As cool it comes along the grain. Beautiful cloud! I would I were with thee In thy calm way o'er land and sea: To rest on thy unrolling skirts, and look On Earth as on an open book ; On streams that tie her realms with silver bands, And the long ways that...
Page 61 - Each thought of the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town ; For men must work, and women must weep ; And there's little to earn, and many to keep, Though the harbor bar be moaning.